iSTOPMOTION
CLAY-MATIONWorked with Daniel Fang and LingxiDaniel Fang

Area of Interaction: Health and Social Education
Significant Concept: Students should understand the positive and negative consequences of an action and should be able to use iStop, iMovie, iDVD and Garageband for projects in all subject areas.
Unit Question: How do my choices impact my life?

REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Take the Claymation Test on Skyward before you begin.
  2. Create a new page on your wiki and name it "iStopMotion". Copy and paste this page into your wiki.
  3. Use the Design Cycle to create your claymation.
  4. Create a one-minute video using your own clay models, iStopMotion, and iMovie.
  5. Use iStopMotion to create your video, use iMovie to edit your video.
  6. Your movie needs to answer the question, "How do my choices impact my life". You need to show the positive and negative consequence of a choice.
  7. Create the background and/or backdrop for your movie. You need to make it, do not use the backgrounds in iStop.
  8. Once the movie is created export it to iMovie.
  9. Add your own GarageBand or iMovie song/sound effects to your movie.
  10. You must have a title at the beginning and end of your movie. Titles will count as ten seconds of your movie.
  11. Create a DVD of your movie.
  12. Upload your movie onto your wikispace.
  13. You will receive MYP grades and an academic grade for this assignment.

INVESTIGATE:
1. Take the test on Skyward.
2. Why are you using the Design Cycle for this assignment?
3. How will the Design Cycle help you with this assignment?
5. Answer the Design Brief questions below:
- What materials do you have for this assignment?
- What software is required for you to use for this assignment?
- How will you earn an academic grade for this assignment?
- How will you earn your MYP grades for this assignment?
- How can my choices change the lives of others positively and negatively?
- How can my choices change my life positively and negatively?
- Why is it important to make positive choices in your life?
- Why is it important to our country that you make positive choices?

PLAN:
6. Brainstorm ideas for you clay-mation. Here is the chart:
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IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf

7. Select one of your ideas and explain why you chose that idea:
9. Use the story board paper to plan your clay-mation. Here is the storyboard:
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story board.pdf

10. Explain how you and your group will use your time to get your project finished in 10 days: (You need to explain who is going to do what, and how you will get this project done by November 22.)
  • Day 1:
  • Day 2:
  • Day 3:
  • Day 4:
  • Day 5:
  • Day 6:
  • Day 7:
  • Day 8:
  • Day 9:
  • Day 10 (November 22): Movie needs to be on your wiki and all the question on your wikispace answered.

CREATE:
  • Use the computer, software, clay and other materials appropriately.
  • Follow the steps of the plan you made in question #9.
  • Follow your storyboard.
  • Pay attention to the quality of your presentation!

EVALUATE:
11. If you made any changes to your plan or story board, explain why you changed it:
  • Why did you change your plan?
  • Why did you change your story board?
12. How could you improve your movie?
13. Does your movie meet all of the requirements?
14. Share your movie with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your movie?
15. Give yourself a grade for each step of the Design Cycle: (1 - 6)
  • Investigate:
  • Plan:
  • Create:
  • Evaluate:
16. Were you responsible in using the software, computer, clay, and other materials?
17. How do my choices impact my life? (Write at least a paragraph. Explain both positive and negative consequences, and how your choices impact others.)

ATTITUDE:
18. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard"?. Explain your answer:
19. Did you complete iStopMotion without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard"?:
20. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6)


How You Will Receive a Letter Grade:
  1. Investigate: 10
  2. Design: 10
  3. Plan: 10
  4. Create: 10
  5. Evaluate: 10
  6. Attitude: 10
  7. Your movie was at least a minute: 10
  8. You answered the unit question: 20
  9. Your movie answered the unit question: 20 (Shows the positive and negative consequence of a choice)
  10. You made your own back drop: 10
  11. Your movie had titles, music, and sound effects: 30
  12. You created a DVD: 10
  13. TOTAL = 160 POINTS